- cross-posted to:
- hardware@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- hardware@lemmy.world
“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”
“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”
Is it rewritable to an extensive degree? If not its just a backup medium, not day-to-day storage. Still useful, but more disposable.
This is the type of thing that would be used for storage of essential human data rather than for general data backups I think
so porn collections?
Yep
I would argue, and I’m sure many historians and librarians and archivists would agree, that “general data backups” are essential human data. Storing the data allows for later analysis, which may provide important insights. Even things that seem trivial and unimportant today can provide very important insights later.
That’s a fair point
If a glass platter really holds 360TB and can be made affordable, it wouldn’t really matter.